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Professional sports are about peak performance and world records - but for many, they're also about money. Swiss company Sportradar has declared war on betting fraud and match fixing.
Sports gambling is big business, estimated be worth several hundred billion euros per year worldwide. As the popularity of online betting grows, controlling the business becomes more difficult, giving the mafia easy pickings for money laundering. Read more on: http://www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16057230,00.html